Physicists at the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment announced the results from their dark matter detector's first scientific run. The LZ detector is the world's most sensitive dark matter detector and the… [+3513 chars]
Up to ~40 supermassive black holes have been observed, which are believed to power the optically bright quasars; however, how these quasars formes less than a billion years after the Big Bang is stil… [+3187 chars]
Scientists have identified more than 1,500 genetic differences between migratory and non-migratory hoverflies.A team led by the University of Exeter captured migrating insects as they flew through a … [+2039 chars]
NASA has revealed details of how it is planning to bring samples from Mars to Earth. According to an update posted on the space agency's website, the compact, lightweight Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) wi… [+2224 chars]
Many of our common electronic devices have long used light to transmit information. Light, which is composed of quantum particles known as photons, will also play an essential role in information pro… [+2148 chars]
ByLonnie Shekhtman, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterJuly 8, 2022 NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaving the surface of asteroid Bennu after collecting a sample. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Cen… [+8965 chars]
Three of the four science instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have completed their commissioning activities and are ready for science. Each of Webb's instruments has multiple modes of o… [+2726 chars]
Our living planet is unique among all we've been able to explore in the Universe so far. From our axial tilt preventing too many temperature extremes, to our goldilocks zone position, life on Earth d… [+4018 chars]
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of researchers observed one of the most distant known galaxies in the very earliest years of the Univers… [+3695 chars]
Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers’ hearts miss a beat. We are… [+5071 chars]
Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are stil… [+4369 chars]
A collaboration including researchers from Kobe University, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University has successfully identified and disrupted genes in the yeast Pichia pastoris (1) in order to incr… [+5799 chars]
